This is a contrivance for raising water to some hight above the level of a stream. In the rim of a wheel turned by the stream a number of strong pins are fixed, to which buckets are suspended.

HT Image This huge structure overlooking the Lower Lake served as a unique water-drawing system during the Nawabi era and had a giant Persian Wheel (rahat) for fetching water atop the high wall.

The Ain Dubai, an observation wheel, rises above an artificial ... He added that rising salinity levels in the Persian Gulf were dangerous because the water was already hypersaline, and adding ...

Once inside the fort, the Persian water wheel was used to pump up the water where the royalty had baths, fountains and toilets and other civilised amenities. According to a calculation the ...

Water at lower level was pumped up to a higher plane using Persian water wheels drawn by draught animals. While the lake now exists in some form with human encroachments on all sides, the fabled ...